A 39-year-old man was found guilty of premeditated murder (Part 1 of Article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) following a public indictment by the Yavoriv District Prosecutor’s Office. He was sentenced to 7 years and 6 months of imprisonment.
Prosecutors proved in court that in October 2021, the convict lived with his 60-year-old mother in one of the villages of Yavoriv district. They often drank alcoholic beverages.
During another feast, a dispute arose between mother and son. In the course of which the convict inflicted numerous blows with his fists on the woman’s head and body, after which he took a wooden stick and continued to beat her with it.
After that, he covered her face with a sweater to block the access of oxygen and started suffocating her by the neck with his hands. The victim died of asphyxiation on the spot.
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